A native speaker probably would've picked up on it in a fraction of the time it took me, alas.
Yep. As soon as I saw it in context, at any rate.
I'm not sure why it's preferred to the straightforward agent noun Lerner "learner". Does that sound too old-fashioned?
Don't know about old-fashioned, but it sounds really odd to this native speaker. "Der Lerner"? Hm, I think I'd give that an asterisk.
As for "Studierende(r)", you probably already know that some people like it because it's easier to be PC in the plural -- since the plural for both male (ein Studierender) and female (eine Studierende) is "Studierende" / "die Studierenden", so you avoid something like "die Studenten und Studentinnen" or the IMO ugly "die StudentInnen".
(Others are annoyed because "der Student" is someone who is enrolled in a university, while "der Studierende" -- being a present participle -- is "someone who is studying". So if you're at home having a beer with your friends, you're still a Student but not a Studierender, since you're not, at that point, studying.)
*Lerner
Yep. As soon as I saw it in context, at any rate.
I'm not sure why it's preferred to the straightforward agent noun Lerner "learner". Does that sound too old-fashioned?
Don't know about old-fashioned, but it sounds really odd to this native speaker. "Der Lerner"? Hm, I think I'd give that an asterisk.
As for "Studierende(r)", you probably already know that some people like it because it's easier to be PC in the plural -- since the plural for both male (ein Studierender) and female (eine Studierende) is "Studierende" / "die Studierenden", so you avoid something like "die Studenten und Studentinnen" or the IMO ugly "die StudentInnen".
(Others are annoyed because "der Student" is someone who is enrolled in a university, while "der Studierende" -- being a present participle -- is "someone who is studying". So if you're at home having a beer with your friends, you're still a Student but not a Studierender, since you're not, at that point, studying.)